作者与身患绝症的母亲关于书、关于书背后的生命的对话 Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatmentswhen Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversationthey have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the samebooks so they can have something to talk about in the hospitalwaiting room. Their choices range from classic (Howards End) topopular (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), from fantastic (TheHobbit) to spiritual (Jon Kabat-Zinn), with many in between. Wehear their passion for reading and their love for each other intheir intimate and searching discussions. A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between achild and parent, and the power of reading in our lives. Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatmentswhen Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversationthey have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the samebooks so they can have something to talk about in the hospitalwaiting room. Their choi

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Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the mind

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